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On unstable ground ⊗ Intelligence evolved at least twice in vertebrate animals ⊗ Pixel agents, talking cars, and moving eyes
No.353 — On trees as infrastructure ⊗ Astrofuturism ⊗ China’s AI boom ⊗ The Bluetooth lady
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Jevons Paradox: a personal perspective ⊗ Terms of centaur service ⊗ Five attitudes towards climate change
No.352 — Every 80 years, reinvention ⊗ Beyond the Torment Nexus ⊗ How AI actually “thinks” ⊗ What if... we experienced the future?
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Practical imagination ⊗ What’s the matter with abundance? ⊗ The case for using your brain
No.351 — Copyright-aware AI ⊗ Aperture ⊗ The Longevity Economy ⊗ DeepMind holding back release of AI research
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Reclaiming hope for alternative futures ⊗ The miraculous tradition in Silicon Valley thought ⊗ The Great Tech Heist
No.350 — Stories from the Future ⊗ Everything is Ghibli ⊗ Wild parrots in anthropocene cities ⊗ 1.5-million-year-old bone tools
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AI as technological bribery ⊗ The foundational challenge ⊗ Doing nothing has never been more important
No.349 — Dubai is a vision of the future ⊗ The rise and fall of the Hanseatic League ⊗ Objects from the future ⊗ Indigenous groups safeguarding culture ⊗ Technofossils
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Write with AI ⊗ The benefits of laziness ⊗ Monstrous Futurities
No.348 — OpenAI declares AI race “over” ⊗ What’s the deal with Manus? ⊗ World’s first “Synthetic Biological Intelligence”
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The government knows AGI is coming ⊗ AI’s productivity paradox ⊗ Thinking time
No.347 — The handoff to bots ⊗ AI for Future Cities ⊗ FLORA ⊗ Why ancient roman concrete was so durable
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On the origin of minds ⊗ Is it okay? ⊗ Is AI really thinking and reasoning?
No.346 — Cultural intelligence in the Age of AI ⊗ AI to “Neutralize the Accent” of Indian Employees ⊗ Small Vehicles of Shanghai
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How mind emerges from matter ⊗ The noetic spiral ⊗ Are other AIs possible?
No.345 — Principles for the permaweird ⊗ Corporate foresight ⊗ The NYT and internal AI tools ⊗ The Luddite Club
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Ruha Benjamin on DEI, but not really ⊗ Media codes and how to resist them ⊗ The end of search, the beginning of research
No.344 — Major AI copyright case in the US ⊗ Toolkit for applied strategic foresight ⊗ The Anthropic Economic Index ⊗ The Forest Speaks
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Are better models better? ⊗ A case for extrospective technologies ⊗ AI as electricity, AI as magic
No.343 — Archigram keeps the dream alive ⊗ The META Trending Trends ⊗ AI to revolutionise fundamental physics ⊗ Inventing the Renaissance
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Enshittification isn’t caused by venture capital ⊗ Reimagining our built world ⊗ The death of scenius
No.342 — Hypernormalisation ⊗ Getting to know futures studies ⊗ DeepSeek reader ⊗ Chinese fusion power generation
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DeepSeek is exploding onto the AI scene and already having a massive impact on AI labs, investors, business models, forecasts, and more. Here’s your overview and reading list.